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Fett101:
Perhaps try

"i've been having this problem as well
just occasionally
the repair option it talks about is as follows

you put in the XP cd and let it boot from it then choose R for recovery console

log in to your XP installation
then type
"ren c:\windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys c:\windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.old"

then

"copy X:\i386\ntfs.sys c:\windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys"

then

"exit"

but it didn't do me any good the problem was in a short in the mobo (a mounting screw was connecting two wires together which were on the IDE Channel so the drive was malfunctioning sometimes, took ages to figure it out)

you can try it out in case it is the problem but i've only ever found microsoft error messages to be misleading. there is an error message for every situation just they have scrambled them all up"

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